Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium AWARD YEAR: 2023 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2023 RECIPIENT: Samar Abu Elouf AFFILIATION: The New York Times HONORED WORK: “Gaza” Despite losing loved ones and being separated from her children, Samar’s commitment to bearing witness helped inform…
Award name: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2022
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium AWARD YEAR: 2022 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2022 RECIPIENT: Marcus Yam AFFILIATION: Los Angeles Times HONORED WORK: “The First 30 Days of the War in Ukraine” Marcus Yam unflinchingly captures the devastation of the war in Ukraine…
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2021
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium AWARD DATE: 2021 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2021 AWARD RECIPIENT: Anonymous AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Getty Images AWARD HONORED WORK: “Myanmar in Turmoil” AWARD SPONSOR: Getty Images The photographer, who must remain anonymous as protection against retaliation, showed…
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2020
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium AWARD DATE: 2020 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2020 AWARD RECIPIENT: Kiana Hayeri AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times Magazine AWARD HONORED WORK: “Where Prison Is a Kind of Freedom” AWARD SPONSOR: Getty Images Kiana Hayeri’s unprecedented look…
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2019
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium. Award Name: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2019 Award Recipient: Dieu Nalio Chery Affiliation: The Associated Press Honored Work: “Haiti: Nation on the Brink” Sponsor: Getty Images Citation for Excellence: Nariman el Mofty Affiliation: The Associated Press Honored Work: “Disembarking…
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2018
Best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise published in any medium AWARD DATE: 2018 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2018 AWARD RECIPIENT: Carolyn Van Houten AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The Washington Post AWARD HONORED WORK: “The road to Asylum: Inside the migrant caravans” AWARD SPONSOR: Getty Images Through a year of making monthly visits to…
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2017
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise AWARD DATE: 2017 AWARD NAME: 03 The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award AWARD RECIPIENT: Carol Guzy AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Zuma Press AWARD HONORED WORK: “Scars of Mosul, the Legacy of ISIS” AWARD SPONSOR: Getty Images Guzy’s entry offered an intimate and unconventional perspective of…
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2016
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise AWARD YEAR: 2016 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award AWARD RECIPIENTS: Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: The New York Times AWARD HONORED WORK: “What ISIS Wrought” Bryan Denton and Sergey Ponomarev showed exceptional courage, advancing with Iraqi Special…
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2015
Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise AWARD YEAR: 2015 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2015 RECIPIENT: Bassam Khabieh AFFILIATION: Reuters HONORED WORK: “Field Hospital Damascus” Bassam Khabieh’s images put into perspective the tremendous danger and difficulty of being a photojournalist in current-day Syria, and they shine a…
The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 2014
Marcus Bleasdale viscerally captured the brutal violence in the Central African Republic at a time when the world’s attention was focused on ISIS, Ukraine and other crises. His menacing, unnerving images of chaos had a profound impact on the judges. The images place the viewer in the moment in a way that demands and holds attention.